Products and systems are conceived, designed, implemented, and operated within an enterprise and business context, and to operate effectively, engineers must sufficiently understand these phases and contexts.
Conceiving runs from market or opportunity identification though high level or conceptual design, and includes development project management.
Designing includes aspects of design process, as well as disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and multi-objective design.
Implementing includes hardware and software processes, test and verification, as well as design and management of the implementation process.
Operating covers a wide range of issues from designing and managing operations, through supporting product lifecycle and improvement, to end-of-life planning.
4.1 EXTERNAL AND SOCIETAL CONTEXT
4.2 ENTERPRISE AND BUSINESS CONTEXT
4.3 CONCEIVING AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
4.4 DESIGNING
4.5 IMPLEMENTING
4.6 OPERATING